When Times Get Hard

Part 5- Slide on 'em

Aaliyah's POV

I woke up in a pretty good mood. I reached over and texted my bestie good morning so she wouldn't flip out. Girl gotta whole boyfriend but be trippin when I don't send her a good morning text. Always talking bout "I thought you died in yo sleep" so over dramatic.

It's Saturday and I'm off so I plan on going to get my nails done and then whatever else today brings. I'll probably go to the gym and get some shots up, and before you say something about my nails and basketball 1. I've learned how to play with nails 2. They not even long, we'll not at least when I'm playing now on my off season that's a different story or just special occasions but I keep 'em at a short square cut. I get dressed and ready for my day and as I'm walking out the door I get a FaceTime call from Jordan.

"Good morning"

"Morning, Whatchu doin today?"

"I'm heading to my nail appointment right now, but other than that nothing much"

"Wanna hang out today?"

"Depends on what you tryna do"

"Nigga nothing fr just drive around"

"You gon try to kidnap me?"

"Bruh why would I kidnap you, don't nobody wanna kidnap you"

"That's not true I bet somebody do, I look to good to not have someone who wanna kidnap me" I say laughing as I unlock my car

"Never in yo life did u just say sun shii like that, I mean you do look good but wanting a kidnapper for yourself is wild Brodie"

"I'm just saying"

"Ok anyways, I'm picking you up be ready at 4. Thank you"

"Ight bet, what do I needa we-" before I could finish my sentence I hear a lot of commotion in the background and I see Jordan move quickly, she grabbed what looked like to be a gun but I couldn't tell

"Aye imma have to call you back" and with that she hung up

Damn is she really the daughter of a drug dealer? Is this girl actually dangerous, maybe I do need to listen to my mother on this one. Well maybe not, I didn't even know but what I do know is that if I don't leave right now imma be late to my appointment. I pull out of the driveway and head to my appointment.

Jordan's POV

I rushed down the stairs with my gun to see what was going on. I saw glass on the floor with the door opened and immediately ran outside when I saw a red charger speeding off. I shot at it a couple times from the porch and when I look down on the curb I see my brother laying there almost stuck, I run down yelling hoping he could hear me. God don't take my brother too. I rush in the house grab my phone and keys and drag my brother to the car and speed off to the hospital.

When I pulled up to the hospital I immediately get help and since it was looking like a life or death situation I got the help I needed and fast. The nurses asked if I had been injured due to the blood on my shirt but I explained that I was fine and all I wanted them to do was help my brother. They look him back rushing him to the back. I call D and tell him what happened. About 5mins later he showed up.

"Yo what happened mane"

"Bro I don't even know, I was in my room on a call then I heard MJ yelling and glass break and the door slam then I heard two shots as I was rushing down the stairs"

"You see who did it"

"Nah just a red charger, I shot it a couple times before they was outta distance. It was at least 3 niggas in the car"

"FUCK mane!" D said so loud it made everybody look at us

"Aye man, stay here and keep me updated I'll be back gotta go let our people know to keep a look out and talk to my pops"

"Ight" He dapped me up and headed out

Fuck bro I can't loose my brother. Whoever them niggas was they gon die and ion give a fuck. They don't know who they fuckin with we don't play about blood, I ride all 4s for mines and imma be like that till the end. Bro I'm so pissed I can't even sit still.

About 2.5hrs later the doctor came out and told me the procedure went well but we're very lucky bc the bullets were deep and he lost a lot of blood that's what look them so long making sure they got them out without scratching up anything unnecessarily. They said they moved him to a room but I couldn't go in there for another 20mins while they finished getting him set up. Despite my anxiety I went back and sat down and texted D to let him know.

15mins later D showed up and we headed to my brothers room. When we walked in I saw my brother looking like shit, they all these tubes connected to him. Ion like seeing my brother like this, it ain't the first time but that don't mean you get used to it. I actually prefer to erase it from my head after it happens. After some time D left to go get me some food, my phone charger cause my shii on 3%, and new clothes since I still had on the bloody ones. I ended up falling asleep in the chair before he got back.

Aaliyah's POV

It's literally 4pm and I haven't heard anything from Jordan. I'm just sitting on my bed ready to leave, I've tried to call her twice and it's going straight to voicemail. I've texted her and everything. Is she standing me up rn like that's fucked up forreal, I know we ain't even that koo but she could've at least told me she could t make it no more. But blowing me off is really fucked up. I sent her one more message then I changed my clothes and went to the gym.

The message:

Me: So you just gon stand me up? That's wild fr😭 like you could've told me that you couldn't make it or something but now u got me sitting here looking dumb waiting on you to pick me up. If you had changed yo mind about our plans you could've just said that, and im the person out here sticking up for you tryna tell everyone to give you a chance and you not a bad person and im not saying that you are cause I don't think so but it's actually fucked up to not even answer my calls or texts . But it's koo ion even wanna hangout no more and im not waiting for you any longer so im heading to gym so don't even try to show up at my house now

I headed to the gym. I needed to clear my head real bad now. I don't even know why this is bothering me so much maybe because I'm the person actually out here trying to be nice to this motherfucker and she couldn't even contact me and tell me she ain't wanna hang out like that's wild. But it's koo ion wanna hear from her for the rest of the day point blank. We'll see how I feel tomorrow.

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Is Aaliyah overreacting? Or does she have the right to be upset?

Should Jordan have told Aaliyah what happened?